MOST IMMED LATE
· ANNEX I
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FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W. 1.
August, 1945.
H.M. Ambassador,
CHUNGKING.
No. 954
Cypher 0.T.P.
Repeat to:
Washington S.E.A.C.
(for Mr. Dening)
Cabinet dist.
TOP SECRET
My telegram No. 933 and your telegrams
No. 884 and 897.
For your own'information British Chiefs of
Staff have instructed Joint Staff Mission in
Washington to inform United States Chiefs of
Staff that military co-ordination is being
effected by the British Chiefs of Staff on
operational matters and that we undertake, so
far as the conditions of the port allow, to give
full facilities through the Hong Kong area for
the assistance and support of Chinese and
American forces who may still be either engaged
against the enemy or involved in securing the
surrender of Japanese forces in the hinterland.
2.
Joint Staff Mission have been instructed to
ask the United States Chiefs of Staff to inform
General Wedemeyer in this sense and to instruct
General MacArthur, if they have not already done so, to arrange for the surrender of Hong Kong to
the British Commander nominated by Admiral
Fraser.
3. Please see my immediately following
telegram.
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